CONTENTS
THE OBSERVATORY
It’s Perfectly Normal
by Manuel Matas
FEATURES
Finding Saddam Hussein: A Study in Applied Remote Viewing
by Stephan A Schwartz
Reissner’s Fiber: The Gateway to Higher
Consciousness
by Lawrence Wile
A New Treaty Between Disease and Evolution: Are Deaminases the “Universal Mutators” Responsible for Our Own Evolution?
by Robyn A. Lindley

THE OBSERVATORY
Everyday Visions: Why People See Impossible
Things by Simon Young
FEATURES
The Language Virus of Information Theory
by Andrew Lohrey
Meaning Fields: Meaning Beyond the Human as a Resolution of Boundary Problems Introduced by Nonlocality
By Imants Barušs
REFERENCE POINT
A Good Detective Story
A Book review by Guy Lyon Playfair of The Enigma of Rosalie: Harry Price’s Paranormal Mystery Revisited
by Paul Adams
BACKSCATTER
The Life and Times of Hypothetical Entities
by Paul LeBlond

THE OBSERVATORY
Perceiving Murder:
Tales from a Psychic Detective
By Pam Coronado
FEATURES
The Department of Defense and UFOs Redux
By John Alexander
Mystical World: The Increasing Acceptance of Ancient Mysticism by Modern Science
By Kenneth Smith
BACKSCATTER
The Windbridge Institute:
Ten Years Working at the Cutting Edge of Science
By Mark Boccuzzi and Julie Beischel

THE OBSERVATORY
Welcome to the Noöverse: Big Data, Deep Anthropology, and Von Neumann Probes
By Eric Wargo
FEATURES
Questioning the Importance of Conscious Awareness in Alternative Healing
By William Bengston
Experiences at the End of Life in Nursing Homes
By Alejandro Parra
BACKSCATTER
Should Any Subject Be Off Limits to Science?
By Henry Bauer

THE OBSERVATORY:
Psychedelics and Species Connectedness
By David Luke
FEATURES:
New Multiverse Models
and their implications for our ideas about human personality and paranormal phenomena
By Simeon Hein
Tracking Scientific Controversies:
A proposal for the creation of a scientific social network
By Chris Reeve

THE OBSERVATORY
How to Feel Normal in an Anomalistic Universe
By Aaron Dabbah
FEATURES
Las Vegas as a Psychokinesis Laboratory
By Joseph Gallenberger
Human Singularities
By Michael Grosso
La Madonna dell’UFO
By Jeffrey Kripal
REFRENCE POINT
In Honor of a True Scientist
A Book Review by Peter Sturrock of Taking the Back off the Watch: A Personal Memoir by Thomas Gold, edited by Simon Mitton
BACKSCATTER
Keyhole Epistomology
By Mel Acheson

THE OBSERVATORY
Why Would a Journalist Investigate the Paranormal?
By Leslie Kean
FEATURES
Baffling Physical Phenomena: Differences in the Phenomenology of Some Famous Physical Mediums
By Erlendur Haraldsson
Photographing Spiritualism
By Shannon Taggart
Is Cryptozoology Just a Pseudoscience?
By Paul LeBlond
REFERENCE POINT
The Psi Race Between East and West: More Hype Than Reality
A book review by JOHN ALEXANDER of ESP Wars East & West: An Account of the Military Use of Psychic Espionage as Narrated by the Key Russian and American Players by Edwin C. May, Victor Rubel, Lloyd Auerbach, and Joe McMoneagle

THE OBSERVATORY
Semantic Pathologies and the “Laws” of Nature
By Michael Reddy
FEATURES
Bioculturalism: What Modern Medicine Misdiagnoses
By Frank Bures
Stellar Consciousness: Can Panpsychism Emerge as an Observational Science?
By Gregory L. Matloff

THE OBSERVATORY
The Paranormal Future is Now
By Darryl V. Caterine
FEATURES
Columbus-Come-Lately:
An Overview and Update of the Ancient-Transoceanic-Contacts Controversy
By Stephen C. Jett
The Scientific Zig-Zag: On the Value of "Crazy" Ideas
By SD Tucker
BACKSCATTER
Unequivocal Spontaneous Psi
By Douglas M. Stokes

THE OBSERVATORY
The Spectral Revolution
By Jason Reza Jordan
FEATURES
Parapsychology’s Contributions to Mainstream Science
By Caroline Watt
The Potential of Intuition in Science: Another Way of Knowing
By William H. Kautz
REFERENCE POINT
The Scandalous Treatment of New Knowledge
A review by Ron Westrum of Against the Tide: A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics and Astronomy Get Done, edited by Martin Lopez Corredoira and Carlos Castro Perelman

THE OBSERVATORY
Hypnosis, Trance, and Human Evolution
By Adam Crabtree
FEATURES
The Deep Mystery of the Prime Numbers
By Owen O'Shea
The Temporal Architecture of Life:
A Survey of Environmental Dynamics in Human Health
By Kenneth Smith

THE OBSERVATORY
Scientific Revolution, Orienting Constructs, and the Challenge of Parapsychology
By James Carpenter
FEATURES
Beyond the Second Law of Thermodynamics
By Daniel P. Sheehan
Ecstasy and Gravitation: The Levitations of Joseph of Cupertino
By Michael Grosso
REFERENCE POINT
Proposition: Our Separateness Is an Illusion
A Book Review by Roger Nelson of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters by Larry Dossey
BACKSCATTER
Archaeoacoustics: Breaking New Ground on Mind and Matter
By Robert G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne

THE OBSERVATORY
Beyond the Safe Zones of Science
By Michael Brooks
FEATURES
Trauma Displaced in Time:
9/11 and the Terrible Enjoyment of Psi
By Eric Wargo
Autistics, Savants, and Psi:
A Radical Theory of Mind
By Diane Hennacy Powell
BACKSCATTER
A Multi-Sensory Clairvoyant
By Peter Sturrock

THE OBSERVATORY
Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality: A Brief History of the “Sursem” Project
By Edward F. Kelly
FEATURES
The Sirius Mystery: Time for a Reevaluation?
By Anthony Mugan
The Stralsund Incident of 1665
By Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough
BACKSCATTER Looking for a Revolution
By Andrew May

THE OBSERVATORY
Is Time the Soul of the World?
By Marshall Payn
FEATURES
Will the Real Ubik Please Stand Up?
Precognition of Scientific Information in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick
by William Sarill
On The Trail Of Mediterranean Mystery Snakes
by Karl Shuker
LETTERS
On Funding Maverick Science

Special Issue: Maverick Science
THE OBSERVATORY
Proposal for an Office of Public-Centered Science
By Peter A. Sturrock and Wayne B. Jonas
FEATURES
Cosmic Rain: A Maverick’s Tale
By Louis A. Frank
The Planck Club: Why Scientific Mavericks Are Essential to Prosperity
By Donald W. Braben
LETTERS
On Social Psi and the Fatima Apparitions
REFERENCE POINT
On Water: A Revolution in the Making
A Book Review by Henry H. Bauer of
Gerald H. Pollack’s The Fourth Phase of Water

THE OBSERVATORY:
On Addressing Anomalous Phenomena: Could Skeptics and Believers Use a Little Couples Therapy?
By Jennifer Lyke
FEATURES:
Social Psi: A Framework for Understanding Large Scale Anomalies
By Eric Ouellet
Before the Big Bang: Toward a Scientific Revolution
By Frank Parkinson
Questions About Interacting with Invisible Intelligences
By Imants Barušs
LETTERS:
On Reincarnation

THE OBSERVATORY
The Science Bubble
By Henry H. Bauer
FEATURES
A Case of Xenoglossy Under Hypnosis
By Ohkado Masayuki and Okamoto Satoshi
Thoughts on a Shared Dream Model Reincarnation (and Life)
By Jim B. Tucker
REFERENCE POINT
When Dogma Trumps Evidence and the Scientific Method
Book Review by Etzel Cardeña of Will Storr’s The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
BACKSCATTER
An Undiscovered Ligament
By George Kenney